Huron Expositor, 2009-06-10, Page 5n
Farmers have enough r�sponslbilities without adding the
industrial generation of energy with wind turbines
7b the Editor,
It is with immense concern and
growing disgust that I am drawn to
write a letter to the editor of this
publication.
Over the last number of years our
rural communities and rural prop-
erties have become the focus target
for industrial businesses striving to
take advantage of an ever growing
demand for "Green" energy.
Everything from solar energy
"farms" to wind "farms" and carbon
credits and trading of carbon credits
has been -flashed in front of agricul-
ture groups and independents to en-
tice them into reaping the so called
"benefits" that they can achieve, to
offer their remedy to some of the
financial woes of a high risk, high
stress, low return lifestyle such as
farming.
Currently in rural areas all
around the province smooth -talk-
ing, fast-moving . sales people are
making deals with farmers to sell where farming began, and what
their souls, in the form of leases to farming is, and why it is done. The
build "green energy" solutions on definition in the dictionary states
farm land for the "greater good" of that agriculture is the science, art,
our human population. or practice of cultivating the soil,
Never before has there been such producing crops, and raising live -
a rush for industrialized business- stock and in varying degrees, the
es to get in on' the ground floor, or preparation and marketing of the
should I say, the top level of a pyra- resulting products. And, farming is
mid scheme than with the drive to the practice of agriculture or aqua -
get a farmer's signature on a lease culture.
allowing their companies to erect a Nowhere in these two definitions
wind turbine tower on their land or does it say that agriculture farming
to build solar "farms." includes harvesting, (which is to
They offer reasonable lease terms, gather in a crop especially for food)
with respectable remuneration. sunlight, wind or carbon to sell to
They speak of wonderful benefits the cities, towns and populated ar-
for the area such as jobs, and how eas of the province.
this is such a viable solution to our It doesn't even include "energy"
energy crisis, but avoid the human as a farmable commodity! When did
health concerns, the effects of stray industrial generation of energy be -
voltage, and to the wildlife and come another one of the farmers' re-
plants and animals near the newly- sponsibilities along with good land
built "factory." stewardship, ethical production,
We need to remind ourselves healthy food sources and feeding
the cities?
I think it's time we realize that we
cannot handle another responsibil-
ity! I think we need to say when
enough is enough!
Mr. "Green Energy," build the
wind tower beside your property in
the city. Generate your own carbon
credits, our credit is all used up!
Risk your own health living beside
a wind power generation facility,
or a power transmission line, or
"green energy" factory. I'll bet you
won't see that as a viable solution!
We have young families, we have
jobs to do, we have bills to pay and
cities to feed (not electrify)! Learn
to do more with less if you want to
be "greener." Agriculture has!
Don't puff up your chest and hold
your chin up to the world saying,
"I'm gonna be a leader in Green
energy" until you find a way to do
it efficiently, responsibly, and in a
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Man breaks •
both .moving a
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colony onhis arm inTuckersmith
1934
tagged and released at Ocqueoc
River, Presque Isle County on May
27, 1958. In the year it had trav-
elled 180 miles to the place where
Mr. Hart had reeled it in. It grew
from two ounces to one and one-
quarter pounds.
June 6, 1984
Weight load limits for some of
ciation in honour of Alumni of the the larger bridges in Tuckersmith
Seaforth Collegiate Institute who Township have been tested and
died in the great war. only one is giving cause for imme-
June 5, 1959 diate concern. Bridge 14 known
The safety check conducted by the as Strykers bridge at sideroad 30-
Seaforth Police Department, Friday 31 concession 1-2, H.R.S. is show -
afternoon and evening resulted in ing some deterioration and is to be
522 vehicles being checked. Of this evaluated by the engineering firm
number 384 passed and 138 were of B.M. Ross and Associates of God -
found to have defects. erich as to what repairs might have
William Robert "Bert" Shaw, for- to be made. The .bridge carries a 10
merly of Seaforth, who for two years tonne weight load limit.
was on the staff of the Canadian A 15 -year-old Tuckersmith Town -
Embassy in Moscow will shortly ship girl's tale about an elderly man
leave for a second foreign posting moved to tears by a discarded Re-
in Warsaw, Poland. Mr. Shaw at- membrance Day poppy has won a
tended Seaforth Public School and national essay contest sponsored by
Seaforth District High School. He is the Royal Canadian Legion. Bonnie
a brother of Mrs. R. Boussey. Turner of RR4; Seaforth, won the
Wm. M. Hart caught a rainbow cross-country competition with her
trout in the Bayfield River on May essay on the symbolic meaning of
14. It bore a tag, which Mr. Hart the poppy.
returned to the Michigan Depart-
ment of Conservation at Marqui-
ette, Michigan, and was informed
this week that the fish had been
June 6, 1884 Street. gomery Patrick, had both his legs
Thomas Amos of Hullett has just The Bell Engine works have now broken. Mr. Patrick was standing
returned from a visit to Bad Axe, a full force employed and are very on the house, driving a team when
Huron County, Michigan, where busy getting up work for orders al- the whiffletree broke and he was
he spent a couple of weeks looking ready in. Prospects fora large sea- thrown to the ground.
around. He says nearly the whole sons business both in Ontario and James Scott, son of Mrs. H.R.
county is settled by Canadians and the west were . never more' eneour- Scott, Seaforth is the first winner of
they all seem to be prospering. aging. the Alumni Memorial Scholarship,
We are pleased to learn that the The telephone men were here this awarded by the S.C.I. Alumni Asso-
Londesboro Creamery is doing a week getting things in shape for
large and increasing business this bringing in the wires from the ex -
season and is giving the best of sat- tension to the McKillop system.
isfaction to the patrons. It has been The annual race meet of the Sea -
running since, May 12 and is turn- forth Turf Club will be held on their
ing out about 400 lbs. of butter per excellent track in Seaforth on June
day. The first sale was made last 15, 16 and 17. There will be two
week when 23 cents per pound was harness races and one running race
realized. each day, for which liberal purses
Robert McAllister of Hay recently are being offered. As an additional
sold Gilbert Dick a four-year-old attraction they have arranged for
thoroughbred Durham bull, weigh- the attendance during the entire
ing 2,600 lbs. for the sum of six and meet of that most famous of all har-
one-quarter cents per pound. The ness horses "The Eel."
animal was an unusually fine one June 8, 1934
as his weight testifies. Isabel B. Anderson, daughter of
The masons are now busily at Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson of
work building the stone piers to McKillop suffered a broken arm
support the iron bridge to be . erect- when the horse she was driving to
ed in place of the present wooden Collegiate ran away and upset the
structure known as Grieve's bridge buggy. With her was Isabel Bettles,
on the gravel road two and a half daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theron
miles north of Seaforth. Bettles, McKillop, who suffered a
June 4, 1909 sprained wrist and bruises.
John Gillespie is having a new While moving a colony house on
roof placed on his residence on John his farm in Tuckersmith, Mont-